Former campaign manager: Trump's rhetoric killed Ashli Babbitt

Sky Palma
July 12, 2022



Brad Parscale speaking with attendees at the 2018 Student Action Summit hosted by Turning Point USA at the Palm Beach County Convention Center. (Gage Skidmore/Flickr)

During their hearing Tuesday, the Jan. 6 committee presented evidence showing that Donald Trump's former campaign manager Brad Parscale expressed remorse in exchanged texts with former Trump adviser Katrina Pierson.

Parscale said that he felt "guilty" about helping Trump win in 2016 in light of events that took place on Jan. 6, namely the killing of Trump supporter and Capitol rioter Ashli Babbitt.

Parscale referred to Trump as “a sitting president asking for civil war,” in regards to his efforts to overturn the election.

Pierson replied, “You did what you felt right at the time and therefore it was right.”

IN OTHER NEWS: Jan. 6 Committee reveals encrypted messages between Oath Keepers and Trump associates

“Yeah, but a woman is dead,” Parscale said, later adding, “If I was Trump and I knew my rhetoric killed someone.”

Pierson replied, “It wasn’t the rhetoric.”

“Katrina,” Parscale said. “Yes it was.”

The assault on the Capitol left at least five people dead and 140 police officers injured, and followed a fiery speech by Trump to thousands of his supporters near the White House.

WATCH: Fox News analyst stunned by 'breathtaking' Jan. 6 hearing

Trump was impeached for a historic second time by the House of Representatives after the riot -- he was charged with inciting an insurrection -- but was acquitted by the Senate.

In a statement Tuesday on the Truth Social platform, Trump denounced the committee as "Political Hacks and Thugs."

"Have you seen them before?" he asked. "Yes, they are essentially the same lunatics that drove the Country 'crazy' with their lies and made up stories, like RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA, and all of the others."

Watch the video below or at this link.

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-killed-ashli-babbit/

 

Trump gave 'direct commands' to 'ragtag terrorists' to stage the Capitol attack: former prosecutor

Matthew Chapman
July 12, 2022



Capitol rioters (Photo by Joseph Prezioso for AFP)

On Tuesday's edition of MSNBC's "Deadline: White House", former prosecutor Harry Litman broke down the significance of the testimony from the day's hearing of the House Select Committee investigating the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

The hearing focused on ties between Trump associates and the violent extremist groups who allegedly helped plan and organize the insurrection.

"It seemed important to both Congressman Raskin and Congresswoman Cheney and Congresswoman Murphy to make clear that they were also victims, that their lives were also upended not just by the lies but what they did in service to the lies," said anchor Nicolle Wallace.

Litman agreed, saying that "they really put a human touch on it, even to the people who were acting on [Trump's] behalf."

IN OTHER NEWS: Trump melts down after the New York Times reports GOP voters are ready to leave him behind

"And he was in some ways — was Trump — a sort of supporting player here," said Litman. "We found out a few nuggets. There's the statement in the December 18th meeting, which is an amazing meeting that it's crazy the chief of staff let happen. There's his rewriting of the speech and adding all this stuff about Pence. But otherwise, he doesn't figure in as much, except, look, there are always ragtag terrorists out there. I've prosecuted them. There are people who are deluded or believe in a charismatic leader. What they aren't, however, are normally following the direct commands of the president of the United States."

"So, in some ways, even though he's the supporting player here, he really is the looming factor in the background that is making everything happen, and that's what gives rise to the potential charges," added Litman.

Watch the video below or at this link.

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-gave...rists-to-stage-the-capitol-former-prosecutor/

 

Micheal Flynn, Sidney Powell and Rudy Giuliani show up at an unannounced meeting with Trump at the White House to get him to sign this executive order and name Powell as a special council. White House aides, Pat Cipollone, and other White House lawyers find out about it burst into the room and all hell breaks loose with screaming and near fist fights until into the morning. Because the executive order is totally illegal because it is calling for the federal government and not just the government but the department of defense to seize all state voting machines.

And as Cipollone kept asking where is your evidence for any of this. You have to put up or shut up. And since they had no evidence for any of it that's when the fist fights just about broke out.

Another attempted coup right there, And when that didn't work and Trump was told it was illegal he went to Coup plan B and sent the tweet calling his domestic terrorists to DC,



December 16, 2020
PRESIDENTIAL FINDINGS
TO PRESERVE COLLECT AND ANALYZE NATIONAL SECURITY INFORMATION
REGARDING THE 2020 GENERAL ELECTION
By the authority vested in me as President of the United States pursuant to the Constitution and
laws of the United States of America, including Article 2 section 1 of the U.S. Constitution,
Executive Orders 12333, 13848, National Security Presidential Memoranda 13 and 21, the
International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) (IEEPA) and all
applicable Executive Orders derived therefrom, the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C.1601
et seq.) (NEA), and section 301 of title 3, United States Code:
I, Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, find that the forensic report of the Antrim
County, Michigan voting machines, released December 13, 2020, and other evidence submitted
to me in support of this order, provide probable cause sufficient to require action under the
authorities cited above because of evidence of international and foreign interference in the
November 3, 2020, election. Dominion Voting Systems and related companies are owned or
heavily controlled and influenced by foreign agents, countries, and interests. The forensic report
prepared by experts found that "the Dominion Voting System is intentionally and purposefully
designed with inherent errors to create systemic fraud and influence election results. The
system intentionally generates an enormously high number of ballot errors. The intentional
errors lead to bulk adjudication of ballots with no oversight, no transparency, and no audit trail.
This leads to voter or election fraud." The report found the election management system to be
wrought with unacceptable and unlawful vulnerabilities––including access to the internet––
probable cause to find evidence of fraud, and numerous malicious actions.
There is also probable cause to find that Dominion Voting Systems, Smartmatic, Electronic
Systems & Software, and Hart Inter Civic, Clarity Election Night Reporting, Edison Research,
Sequoia, Scytl, and similar or related entities, agents or assigns, have the same flaws and were
subject to foreign interference in the 2020 election in the United States. There is probable cause
to find these systems bear the same crucial code "features" and defects that allowed the same
outside and foreign interference in our election, in which there is probable cause to find votes
were in fact altered and manipulated contrary to the will of the voters.
Dominion Voting Systems is based in Toronto, Canada, and assigns its intellectual property
including patents on its firmware and software to Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank Corporation
(HSBC), a bank with its foundation in China and its current headquarters in London, United
Kingdom. The Dominion Voting system is owned and controlled by foreign entities. Multiple
expert witnesses and cyber experts identified acts of foreign interference in the election prior to
November 3, 2020 and continued in the following weeks. In fact, there is probable cause to find
a massive cyber-attack by foreign interests on our crucial national infrastructure surrounding
our election––not the least of which was the hacking of the voter registration system by Iran.
(E.O. 13800 of May 11. 2017)
Just days prior to the election of November 3, 2020, federal Judge Totenberg found, after three days of testimony including by Dominion executive Eric Coomers:
There are "true risks posed by the new BMD [Ballot Marking Device of Georgia's
Dominion Voting Systems] voting system as well as its manner implementation. These
risks are neither hypothetical nor remote under the current circumstances. The insularity
of the Defendants' and Dominion's stance here in evaluation and management of the
security and vulnerability of the BMD system does not benefit the public or citizens'
confident exercise of the franchise. The stealth vote alteration or operational
interference risks posed by malware that can be effectively invisible to detection,
whether intentionally seeded or not, are high once implanted, if equipment and software
systems are not properly protected, implemented, and audited. The modality of the BMD
systems' capacity to deprive voters of their cast votes without burden, long wait times,
and insecurity regarding how their votes are actually cast and recorded in the unverified
QR code makes the potential constitutional deprivation less transparently visible as well,
at least until any portions of the system implode because of system breach, breakdown,
or crashes. Any operational shortcuts now in setting up or running election equipment or
software creates other risks that can adversely impact the voting process.
"The Plaintiffs' national cybersecurity experts convincingly present evidence that this is
not a question of "right this actually ever happen?" - but “when it will happen,”
especially if further protective measures are not taken. Given the masking nature of
malware and the current systems described here, if the State and Dominion simply stand
by and say, "we have never seen it," the future does not bode well.
"Still, this is year one for Georgia in implementation of this new BMD system as the first
state in the nation to embrace statewide implementation of this QR barcode-based BMD
system for its entire population. Electoral dysfunction - cyber or otherwise - should not
be desired as a mode of proof. It may well land unfortunately on the State's doorstep.
The Court certainly hopes not."1
And, yet it did. Every defect and hazard of which Judge Totenberg warned happened in Georgia.
Witnesses in Georgia have provided evidence of crashes, the replacement of a server,
impermissible updates to the system, connections to the internet, and both Coffee and Ware
counties have identified a significant percentage of votes being wrongly allocated contrary to
the will of the voter. Coffee County Georgia has refused to certify its result.
Accordingly, I hereby order:
(1) Effective immediately, the Secretary of Defense shall seize, collect, retain and analyze
all machines, equipment, electronically stored information, and material records required for
retention under United States Code Title 42, Sections 1974-1974(e), including but not limited to
those identified in footnote 1. The Secretary of Defense has discretion to determine the
interdiction of national critical infrastructure supporting federal elections. Designated locations
will be identified in the operation order.
(2) Within 7 days of commencement of operations, the initial assessment must be provided
to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. The final assessment must be provided to
1 Case 1:17-cv-02989-AT Document 964 Filed 10/11/20 Page 146 of 14

the Office of the Director of National Intelligence no later than 60 days from commencement of
operations.
(3) The Director of National Intelligence shall deliver this assessment and appropriate
supporting information to the President, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury,
the Secretary of Defense, the Attorney General, and the Secretary of Homeland Security.
(4) A direct liaison to be authorized to coordinate as required between the applicable U.S.
Departments and Agencies.
(5) The Secretary of Defense may select by name or by unit federalization of appropriate
National Guard support.
(6) The Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Security will coordinate support
requirements as needed from the Department of Homeland Security.
(7) The appointment of a Special Counsel to oversee this operation and institute all criminal
and civil proceedings as appropriate based on the evidence collected and provided all
resources necessary to carry out her duties consistent with federal laws and the Constitution.
-------------------------------------------------------------
DONALD J. TRUMP
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

file:///C:/Users/Stumb/Downloads/never-filed-trump-executive-order.pdf

 

Mark Meadows told aide not to quit — because Trump wasn't leaving office: report

Bob Brigham
July 12, 2022



Gage Skidmore.

Chief of staff Mark Meadows revealed on Dec. 2, 2020 that Donald Trump did not intend to leave office despite losing the presidential election to Joe Biden, a former top White House official revealed on CNN.

Former White House communications director Alyssa Farah Griffin recounted on CNN a conversation she had with Mark Meadows on that day while wondering who allowed Sidney Powell, Mike Flynn and former Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne into the White House for the "unhinged" Dec. 18 meeting.

"Who waived them?" Griffin asked. "Which is putting them through security to get onto White House grounds. We don't even have that answer now."

"I suspect it was Mark Meadows and I say that because I can tell you before I resigned, I said 'Sir, I'm planning to move on, I want to put in my notice.' And he said to me, 'What if I could tell you we're actually going to be staying?' You can interpret that as hypothetical, but there were people around the president telling him that and that's what led to this absolute insanity," Griffin said.

She noted she "moved up my resignation to the next morning and I said, 'No, of course, we're not.' I told all my staff we lost"

She resigned on Dec. 3, making Dec. 2 the date of the reported conversation.

Watch below or at this link.

https://www.rawstory.com/mark-meadows-coup-2657657930/

 

If you want to see the shit hole country under Trump you need look no further than this. This is true banana republic right here where the authoritarian dictator loses an election and rather than conceding sends the military out to confiscate the voting machines and name a special prosecutor to throw their political opponents in jail. And if were not for Pat Cipollone and the White House Counsel's office finding out about this secret meeting and barging in to insist it was illegal and there was no evidence of voter fraud this would have happened.

But instead once Trump was told this was not just unconstitutional but actually illegal he went to plan B and made the early morning tweet calling his domestic terrorists to DC to try and ramen in power through an armed insurrection and attempted coup.

'This is banana republic stuff': CNN analyst stunned by detail from White House lawyers' meeting

Tom Boggioni
July 13, 2022



Donald Trump (Photo by K Jim Watson for AFP)

Reviewing the testimony given and clips shown during Tuesday's House select committee hearing on the Jan 6th insurrection, CNN analyst John Avlon pointed out on "New Day" that he was struck by one telling detail that came out of the contentious meeting between two factions of attorneys in the White House in mid-December.

With CNN legal analyst Laura Coates and counterintelligence expert Phil Mudd stating an ironclad legal case has not been made against Donald Trump so far, Avlon claimed there is plenty for prosecutors to work with.

"This meeting that took place -- and again, the timeline is really interesting -- this meeting takes place hours before Donald Trump sends this tweet, which says, you know, come to the Capitol on January 6th, it will be wild. the descriptions of this meeting really are something," host John Berman prompted.

READ: Morning Joe blasts Trump for turning to 'crackpots and idiots' when no one else would help him

"I mean, describing it as the most chaotic oval office meeting of the Trump era is the highest bar imaginable, but this makes a strong case for it, Avlon began. "You clearly have a group of outside advisers who are completely unhinged, as [White House counsel] Pat Cipollone says, not even bothering to meet the basic standards of anything resembling evidence, arguing that the president should seize voting machines."

"They come with a draft executive order, they're not just suggesting it's drafted," New Day co-host Brianna Keilar interjected.

"It's so totally crackers, but beyond that, this is -- this is banana republic stuff," Avlon added.

"Don't we have, by the way, [former attorney general] Bill Barr saying that former president Trump was asking him about seizing voting machines?" Berman asked.

"Yes!" Avlon explained.

RELATED: 'Should disturb everyone': Fox News analyst stunned by 'breathtaking' Jan. 6 hearing

"You have Trump in on the notion of seizing voting machines," Berman continued with Coates chiming in, "And Bill Barr saying there's no probable cause to do what you're asking. Remember, you actually have to have some reason to seize things; it's called the Fourth Amendment."

Watch below or at this link.

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-banana-republic/

 

attaboy
wave that flag, you fraud.

 

Exclusive: Jan. 6 chairman says committee will share findings with the Department of Justice

Sarah K. Burris
July 13, 2022



Matt Laslo.

This article was paid for by RawStory+ subscribers. Want to chip in more? Click here.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — House Select Committee chairman Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS) spoke to the press on Capitol Hill Wednesday saying that the Justice Department never asked for the actual transcripts from their interviews.

"They wanted access to our transcripts," he explained to Raw Story, noting that it was only with regard to the case involving the fake electors, nothing to do with the overall attempt to overthrow Congress and the 2020 election.

He said that the burden is on the Department of Justice. "We will share that information" at any point deemed relevant. "Our task is to get to the facts... and that's what we're trying to do."

Thompson went on to explain that it's the DOJ's job to decide whether they intend to go after former President Donald Trump.

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"It's their process," he said. "And whatever it is, it is the Department of Justices responsibility."

The next public hearing of the House Select Committee is next Thursday and will be in prime-time. However, Thompson said that currently is the plan to have Thursday be the final hearing, but that things can change based on the information that they continue to gather.

"The expectation is that when we complete the hearing next week, beyond the hearing, to release the report," he said. "But it could be — that's not in stone but that's the plan right now."

When Raw Story asked what he looks most forward to after the Jan. 6 committee hearings are finished, Thompson, who's known to have a sense of humor, quipped, "not being hassled by journalists."



https://www.rawstory.com/january-6-committee-thompson-doj/

 

This is news?
The DOJ/FBI/despicables been asking the star chamber clowns for their evidence for months.

 

NEW POLL: Voters Say Trump Committed ‘Crime’ on Jan. 6 By Whopping 21-Point Margin Amid Blockbuster Hearings
By Tommy ChristopherJul 13th, 2022, 12:30 pm
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Stephanie Keith/Getty Images

In a poll taken amid the ongoing January 6 hearings, voters believe that former President Donald Trump committed a crime with his role in the attack — by a whopping 21-point margin.

Since the hearings began, there has been speculation about whether the evidence laid out during the hearings will become the basis for a prosecution of Trump, which has only intensified as more and more damaging information comes out.


In a new poll released this week — taken after the bombshell revelations of former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson but before Tuesday’s riveting hearing — 56 percent of respondents to the poll said they believe Trump’s alleged attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election was a crime,” versus only 35 percent who said they think it was “not a crime.”

The pollster offered three choices, asking “do you believe that Donald Trump’s alleged attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election was a crime that he should be prosecuted for, a crime that he should not be prosecuted for, or do you think it was not a crime?”

Overall, 50 percent responded it “was a crime that he should be prosecuted for,” with an additional 6 percent saying it was “a crime that he should not be prosecuted for.”

The pollster noted some other findings from the poll showing small but at times significant changes in attitudes since before the hearings:

• Three in 10 Republican voters (31%) said Trump is at least somewhat responsible for the events that led to the Jan. 6, 2021 riot, comparable to the 29% who said the same in a June 10-12 survey just after the select committee’s first major public hearing. Among the overall electorate, 59% blame Trump for Jan. 6 — up from 57% last month.
• Compared with a survey conducted June 24-26, the shares of Republicans who said Trump misled people about the 2020 election outcome (up 5 percentage points to 30%), attempted to overturn the 2020 result (up 5 points to 45%) and claimed without evidence that the last presidential contest was fraudulent (up 7 points to 44%) all increased in the wake of Hutchinson’s testimony.

The January 6 committee dropped several bombs Tuesday, including a teaser for next week’s hearing: that Trump tried to contact a witness.

https://www.mediaite.com/news/new-p...ng-21-point-margin-amid-blockbuster-hearings/

 

Roger Stone denies coordinating with militias before J6 — and then confuses England with Canada

Bob Brigham
July 13, 2022



Republican operative Roger Stone from his Facebook account.

Notorious GOP dirty trickster Roger Stone on Wednesday lashed a Canadian newspaper for publishing a Reuters video on Tuesday's televised hearings by the House Select Committee Investigating the Jan. 6 Attack on the U.S. Capitol.

"Members of a U.S. House of Representatives select committee investigating the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol pointed to links on Tuesday between Trump allies and right-wing militant groups, including the Oath Keepers, Proud Boys and the QAnon internet conspiracy movement," Reuters reported.

The clip showed Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) speaking at the hearing.

READ: A 'significant development': Job of the staffer Trump called revealed by CNN

"Another central figure with ties to this network of extremist groups was Roger Stone," Raskin said as the video zoomed in on a photo of Stone with masked Proud Boys.

Raskin noted Stone is a "longtime confidant" of Trump.

The video apparently angered Stone, who responded on Trump's Truth Social website.

"No the only thing I co-ordinated (sic) was my travel to a perfectly legal speech on Jan 5," Stone claimed.

However, Stone's denial may not be worth much.

While being interviewed by Jeffrey Toobin for a 2008 New Yorker profile, Stone admitted lying about a previous denial.

RELATED: Jan. 6 hearing spotlights role of Roger Stone as crucial link between Proud Boys and Trump

"Stone served as a senior consultant to Bob Dole’s 1996 campaign for President, but that assignment ended in a characteristic conflagration. The National Enquirer, in a story headlined 'Top Dole Aide Caught in Group-Sex Ring,' reported that the Stones had apparently run personal ads in a magazine called Local Swing Fever and on a Web site that had been set up with Nydia’s credit card. “Hot, insatiable lady and her handsome body builder husband, experienced swingers, seek similar couples or exceptional muscular . . . single men,” the ad on the Web site stated. The ads sought athletes and military men, while discouraging overweight candidates, and included photographs of the Stones. At the time, Stone claimed that he had been set up by a “very sick individual,” but he was forced to resign from Dole’s campaign. Stone acknowledged to me that the ads were authentic," Toobin reported.

And that wasn't even the only Stone denial in question. There was also the incident involving a voicemail message the 83-year-old left for the father of then-New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer.

"Private detectives hired by Bernard Spitzer traced the call to Stone’s wife’s telephone, but Stone, however implausibly, denied leaving the message," Toobin reported. "At first, he claimed that on the night of the call he had been attending the Broadway show “Frost/Nixon,” but there was no performance that evening. Stone also suggested that his landlord, a Spitzer supporter, had set him up, or that a standup comedian and impressionist had imitated his voice. As a result of the controversy, Stone had to relinquish his position with the State Senate Republicans."

Stone's denial was even too absurd for Trump.

“They caught Roger red-handed lying,” Trump charged. “What he did was ridiculous and stupid. I lost respect for Eliot Spitzer when he didn’t sue Roger Stone for doing that to his father, who is a wonderful man.”

RELATED: 'One loud voice!': Capitol riot preceded by months of mobilization by organizers linked to Mike Flynn

After issuing his latest denial, Stone went on to complain about the newspaper that republished the video on its website.

"Libel laws being what they are in the UK the Globe and Mail better watch their ass," Stone said.

But The Globe and Mail is not located in the United Kingdom, it's a Canadian newspaper based in Toronto.
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https://www.rawstory.com/roger-stone-j6-militia-denial/

 

This is more comical than anything else. Treason and an attempted coup was just all fun and games until the feds show up with subpoenas for the fake electors and Trump's armed insurrection and attempted coup is being exposed. So now its cover your ass time even if that means two treasonous conservative/America Hating/Republicans in Congress have to start accusing each other.


Pennsylvania Republican investigating whether his office handed fake electors to Ron Johnson

Matthew Chapman
July 14, 2022



Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI)

After Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) claimed that the slate of fake Trump electors his office passed on to former Vice President Mike Pence came from Rep. Mike Kelly (R-PA), the latter Republican vehemently denied any such thing happened.

However, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Kelly appears to be investigating whether it did.

"'Our current chief-of-staff has begun conducting an internal investigation, which Rep. Kelly is aware of and takes seriously,' Matt Knoedler, Kelly's press secretary, confirmed to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Wednesday afternoon," reported Lawrence Andrea. "Kelly's potential role in the effort to hand Pence false elector paperwork from Wisconsin and Michigan in the minutes before Congress was set to confirm Joe Biden's victory on Jan. 6, 2021, has become a point of contention in recent weeks."

READ: 'He’s gonna get pulverized': Mark Meadows facing major legal peril

"Johnson has maintained that the false elector documents, which texts show his staff attempted to deliver to Pence before being told not to, came from Kelly's office. Kelly has denied the accusation," said the report. "But Johnson's office on Wednesday provided the Journal Sentinel with a screenshot of a phone record indicating Sean Riley, Johnson's chief of staff, had a 2-minute phone call with a number associated with former Kelly chief of staff Matt Stroia at 11:58 a.m. Jan. 6." Johnson's office says this conversation was about the electors, although no audio recording exists of it.

The fake electors, which declared themselves in several swing states Biden carried, were part of a plan by pro-Trump attorney John Eastman.

Under an infamous memo Eastman wrote, the fake electors would be given to Pence, who would then claim the states' results were disputed and disqualify the real electors, throwing the election to Trump. Experts have broadly said this plan was illegal — even Eastman himself acknowledged this in private — and Pence himself refused to go through with it.



https://www.rawstory.com/pennsylvan...ors-to-ron-johnson-after-denying-it-happened/

 

President Biden needs to clean house at the Secret Service from top to bottom. Its bad enough that just about every time he takes an overseas trip some Secret Service agent gets drunk gets in a fight and gets sent home but now they are even destroying evidence after they have been told to preserve it.


And remember what Rep Adam Schiff said was the most chilling thing they uncovered in their investigation of J6. It was when Pence told his security detail "I am not getting in that car." And the leader of his security detail told him they would not take him out of the Capitol if he did not want to go. And Pence said "I trust you but you are not the one who's driving." Because if they could have gotten Pence out of the Capitol and kept him out it would be another way to send the election down to the treasonous conservative/American Hating/Republicans in the House and make Trump dictator for life.


Secret Service deleted J6 text messages after investigators demanded them: DHS inspector general

Bob Brigham
July 14, 2022



United States Secret Service / Shutterstock.

The United States Secret Service is in yet another scandal over its performance during the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

"The Secret Service erased text messages from January 5 and January 6, 2021, according to a letter given to the January 6 committee and reviewed by The Intercept. The letter was originally sent by the Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General to the House and Senate homeland security committees. Though the Secret Service maintains that the text messages were lost as a result of a 'device-replacement program,' the letter says the erasure took place shortly after oversight officials requested the agency’s electronic communications," The Intercept reported Thursday.

Former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson testified that Trump scuffled with Secret Service agents as he sought to join his MAGA crowd's riot.

"The Department of Homeland Security — Secret Service’s parent agency — is subject to oversight of the DHS Office of Inspector General, which had requested records of electronic communications from the Secret Service between January 5 and 6 of 2021, before being informed that they had been erased. It is unclear from the letter whether all of the messages were deleted, or just some. DHS officials have also pushed back on the OIG’s records request by arguing that the records must first undergo review by DHS attorneys, which has delayed the process and left unclear if the Secret Service records would ever be produced, according to the letter," The Intercept reported.


The established timeline shows the messages were deleted after the request to produce documents.

"A top Secret Service official allegedly involved in the attempt to spirit away Pence on January 6 remains in a leadership position at the agency. Tony Ornato, a Secret Service agent whom Trump made the unprecedented decision to appoint as his deputy White House Chief of Staff, reportedly informed Pence’s national security advisor, Keith Kellogg, on January 6 that agents would relocate the Vice President to Joint Base Andrews," The Intercept reported. "Today, Ornato serves as Assistant Director at the Secret Service’s Office of Training."

CNN confirmed the report.

https://www.rawstory.com/secret-ser...tigators-demanded-them-dhs-inspector-general/

 

They must have learned that trick from Hillary, eh?

 

Google it.

 

Subby is looking for a fight lately so she trolling.
Shooter doesn't want to fight with her so he declines her bait.

 

There is no telling how much evidence the Secret Service has destroyed in their cover ups. But this is certainly not the first time. After the Kennedy assassination when the Warren Report began to fall apart a new Congressional committee was formed to look into new information they were receiving. Including reports that the Secret Service received multiple reports from multiple places that people were plotting to assassinate Kennedy. The committee knew from the Warren investigation the Secret Service had literally boxes of communications and reports surrounding the assassination and told the Secret Service they wanted to review all the communications and reports. But were told by the Secret Service you know damn the luck we just destroyed all those boxes of communications as part of our routine house keeping.

Sounds like pretty much the same thing here.

But we don't even need any records to see there was a great deal of Secret Service corruption and aiding and abetting just by our own common sense. The Secret Service was told domestic terrorists were trying to sneak weapons including guns into Trump's rally. They were told about people carrying AR-15's on Capitol grounds including at least one person spotted in a tree with what looked like an AR-15. And they let the President of the United States of America take the stage right out in the open anyway? That is just an incredible security breach. A very real chance Trump could have been assassinated. But they let Trump do it anyway because they knew and believed the same thing he did. Those armed domestic terrorists were not there to hurt him. So they let him take the stage knowing people in the crowd and in the immediate area had guns.

House impeachment lawyer pokes holes in Secret Service's claim that only Jan. 6 texts are missing

Tom Boggioni
July 15, 2022



Donald Trump and uniformed members of Secret Service (Photo by Saul Loeb)

Appearing on CNN's "New Day" on Friday morning, former House impeachment lead counsel Daniel Goldman cast a jaundiced eye at Secret Service claims that the only texts missing among agents occurred around Jan. 6, saying there is more to the story than government officials are letting on.

Joseph Cuffari, the inspector general of the Department of Homeland Security, told Congress in the letter dated Wednesday that his office has had difficulties obtaining records from the Secret Service from January 5 and 6, 2021.

The messages could be crucial to the House of Representatives and Justice Department investigations into whether Donald Trump and his close advisors encouraged the deadly insurrection by the former president's supporters at the US Capitol, which aimed to prevent the certification of Democratic rival Joe Biden as the winner of the November 2020 election.

"The Department notified us that many US Secret Service (USSS) text messages, from January 5 and 6, 2021, were erased as part of a device replacement program," Cuffari wrote in the letter first reported by The Intercept and later published by Politico.

RELATED: ‘Beyond outrageous’: Morning Joe unloads on Secret Service coverup

Speaking with hosts Brianna Keliar and John Berman, Goldman was asked about the report.

"Daniel, what do you see here?" host Berman began. "What we know is that a Homeland Security inspector general asked for these text messages and now we are learning from this Homeland Security inspector general, it's a letter from this person, saying that they were destroyed according to them after this request. what does that tell you?"

"Well, first of all, let's remember these letters are not written lightly to Congress," he began. "I am sure that the inspector general notified the Secret Service that they would have to send this letter if they did not get better compliance and they didn't, but more importantly and to the point, there are a lot of questions that this raises."

"They claim that it was a phone migration system, but the only days of texts that were erased were January 5th and 6th?" he elaborated. "That seems very unlikely that that is due to the phone migration. Second, I would want to understand when this happened because what the letter says is that these text messages were requested by the IG as part of their investigation into January 6th and that after that request these texts were deleted."

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"Now that raises a lot of suspicions as well because you should freeze everything when a request is made by any lawful investigator," he added. "And then finally it raises a lot of questions as to whose texts were deleted. Was it Tony Ornato who was a Secret Service official who came on board as a political appointee as deputy chief of staff? So there are still many questions to answer, but it is very suspicious, especially because of the critical role that the secret service played on January 5th and January 6th stopping Donald Trump from going to the Capitol, scurrying Mike Pence out of the capitol when he was under serious threat. Many, many questions have to be directed at the Secret Service."

The Secret Service has been criticized for not adequately anticipating the threat of the violent action by armed Trump supporters on January 6.

Trump had made a senior Secret Service official at the time, Tony Ornato, his personal deputy chief of staff.

Ornato has denied the account given to the January 6 committee by former Trump aide Cassidy Hutchinson that Trump tried to force the Secret Service to drive him to the Capitol as his supporters massed at the building, the seat of the US legislature.

But other then-White House officials have backed Hutchinson's story.

Watch below or at this link.

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-secret-sdervice-texts/

 

Shooter pointing out the hypocrisy of the left when it comes to all things trump has triggered not one, not two, but three liberal geniuses.
His work here is done.
*Shooter goes off whistling a happy tune.

 

This really does remind me of Watergate. I would be sitting there and some witness I had never heard of would get sworn in like Alexander Butterfield. He was so low level no one had ever heard of him. And the next thing we knew he was explaining he installed a recording system in the White House and how it worked. And that the whole Watergate conspiracy Nixon directed was on tape.

Trump campaign operative who delivered Jan. 6 false elector lists is identified

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Kyle Cheney and Nicholas Wu
Fri, July 15, 2022 at 5:52 PM



A little-known Donald Trump campaign operative delivered lists of false electors to Capitol Hill in a bid to get them to Vice President Mike Pence on Jan. 6, 2021, according to two people familiar with the episode.

Mike Roman, then Trump’s 2020 director of Election Day operations, delivered those false elector certificates — signed by pro-Trump activists in Michigan and Wisconsin — to Rep. Mike Kelly's (R-Pa.) chief of staff at the time, both people told POLITICO. Kelly was a Trump ally in the effort to overturn the 2020 election, and his then-top aide received the documents from Roman before deputizing a colleague to disseminate copies on Capitol Hill, according to both people.

Roman’s role in the effort to deliver those slates of electors directly to Pence has not previously been reported. The onetime Trump White House researcher and former aide to the conservative Koch network, who was subpoenaed in February by the Jan. 6 select committee, did not respond to multiple requests for comment for this story.

The origin of the false elector lists, which never got to Pence before he presided over certification of Joe Biden's victory on Jan. 6, has become an enduring subplot in the select panel's investigation of the Capitol attack designed to disrupt that day. After the committee revealed the role of a top aide to Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) in the episode during a hearing last month, Johnson said the false elector lists came from Kelly — who has repeatedly denied any involvement by his office in their distribution.


"They have changed their story, from denying their involvement outright to now not denying their former chief of staff’s involvement," said Alexa Henning, a Johnson spokesperson. "Congressman Kelly should be issuing Senator Johnson an apology for participating in the perpetration of false stories regarding Senator Johnson’s minimal involvement in this matter."

Kelly has recently touted the results of an “internal investigation” that identified Matt Stroia, his chief of staff at the time, as the intermediary for the lists. That inquiry found that the lists were never passed from Stroia, now a Pfizer lobbyist, to Johnson's office. Kelly's office, in response to a request for comment, said Stroia had a previous relationship with members of the Trump team and got contacted by someone linked to that team on Jan. 6.

"Matthew got the information," Kelly's current chief of staff, Tim Butler, said in an interview. "There was another staffer here in the office who was asked to physically walk it over. And it's just those two individuals that were involved."

Neither of those two individuals worked in Kelly's office any longer, Butler said. Kelly's office declined to identify the other staffer involved.

Neither Roman nor Stroia returned requests for comment for this story.

Both people who confirmed Roman's involvement in the transmission of the elector lists spoke on condition of anonymity amid the select panel's ongoing investigation into the runup to the attack and Trump's role in it.

The Jan. 6 committee's mention of his office's role put Johnson, facing a tough reelection race this fall, on the back foot. He later told a home-state radio host: "My office's entire involvement in this thing lasted 70 minutes. My involvement was probably seconds, maybe a minute or two."

Roman's involvement, however, clarifies another piece of the puzzle behind Trump’s effort to seize a second term he didn’t win. Trump, relying on a band of fringe attorneys, spent much of December 2020 leaning on Republican state legislatures in a handful of states to ignore the results and deliver pro-Trump electors to Congress.

Under Trump’s plan, Pence — required by the Constitution to preside over the counting of electoral votes on Jan. 6, 2021 — would cite the “alternate” and illegitimate electors to block Biden’s victory or delay the count altogether. Ultimately, no state legislature agreed to Trump’s plan, but the former president's campaign still assembled activists to sign false documents claiming to be genuine presidential electors and delivered them to Congress.

The plan fell apart when Pence refused to go along, contending that doing so would violate multiple provisions of federal law and insisting he had no power to do anything other than introduce certified electoral votes. Pence, who had huddled with advisers and the Senate parliamentarian to flesh out his position, had decided well before Jan. 6 that he would not attempt to overturn Biden’s victory.

But that didn’t stop the Trump campaign from attempting to place some of the false slates directly into Pence’s hands on Jan. 6.

The Justice Department is in talks with the select committee about evidence specifically related to the false electors effort, Jan. 6 panel chair Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) said this week.

DOJ has in recent weeks subpoenaed a slew of Trump allies who acted as false electors, including several state GOP chairs. It has also subpoenaed state-level operatives working on Trump’s campaign.

In addition, FBI agents recently seized the phone of attorney John Eastman, a top strategist for Trump’s effort who worked closely on the plan to appoint false electors. Eastman is fighting in a New Mexico federal court to get his phone back but was dealt a setback Friday evening when a judge denied his motion for a restraining order.

When subpoenaing Roman, who is from Pennsylvania, the select committee cited records reflecting his push to convince Republican state legislatures to appoint pro-Trump slates of presidential electors as part of a strategy to boost the losing campaign.

“[T]he Select Committee is in possession of communications reflecting your involvement in a coordinated strategy to contact Republican members of state legislatures in certain states that former President Trump had lost and urge them to “reclaim” their authority by sending an alternate slate of electors that would support former President Trump,” Thompson wrote in a letter accompanying the subpoena.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-campaign-operative-delivered-jan-235240434.html

 

Report: DOJ Brings In More Firepower—and Takes Aim at Trumpworld

The bombshell revelations of the House’s Jan. 6 hearings have the Department of Justice putting more manpower—and more real estate—toward its investigations of figures close to ex-President Donald Trump, according to The Wall Street Journal. The paper revealed the law enforcement agency has expanded the roster, office space, and mission of the band of attorneys digging into Republicans potentially complicit in the bloody attack on the Capitol last year. The news comes after the latest rounds of congressional hearings disclosed that a host of GOP congressmen sought pardons in connections with their activism to overturn President Joe Biden’s 2020 victory, and after feds raided the home of ex-DOJ lawyer Jeffrey Clark, who the House committee found had assisted Trump in pressuring the agency to falsely claim fraud in the Georgia election results.But the Journal also reported DOJ had grown frustrated with the committee for failing to turn over transcripts of its interviews, particularly with Republicans who participated in false pro-Trump elector slates in states Biden won.

Read it at The Wall Street Journal


https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-d...trump-allies-amid-jan-6-hearings-wsj?ref=home

 

Trump Attorney John Eastman Loses Bid to Protect His Phone From Feds

John Eastman, a former attorney for ex-president Donald Trump, lost his emergency request to block the Justice Department from accessing the contents of his phone, CNN reports. Jan. 6 investigators had said the phone may contain evidence useful in the ongoing probe of the deadly Capitol insurrection. Eastman had asked a court to prevent federal investigators from searching his phone or using anything they find in the criminal inquiry, but a federal judge maintained the department’s search warrant was valid, so long as they get a second warrant to actually go through the device's contents as per norm. “Because there is no evidence that the Government has searched the phone or plans to search it without the benefit of a Filter Team, and because the warrant specifies that no search of the phone will occur until further order of the court, Eastman fails to show a likelihood of success,” U.S. District Judge Robert Brack wrote Friday. Brack also said the Justice Department must update him later this month on the situation, including whether or not they obtained a second valid warrant.

Read it at CNN


https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump...searching-his-phone-in-jan-6-inquiry?ref=home